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If you love a movie, you'll want to explore other works from the same director. Luckily for movie fans, the greatest directors are usually quite prolific. Discuss the directors you find admirable or over-rated.

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5 days ago

Competent, but hardly enthralling, with the exception of the superb "The Third Man" by comparison with which the rest of his work is simply mundane.

This justly famous scene captures a lot of Reed's technique. The angled cameras, off beat lighting, and astute editing. And some of the best dialogue in film.

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39 days ago

Better than average, probably a 3.5 which I'm generously rounding to 4, but not much more than that.

I'm also curious, where are the folks who brand Polanski with the kiddy-raper tag when it comes to this guy? Try to to be consistent, folks.
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46 days ago

Entertaining enough as a Sam Raimi film. I'm not sure how someone would take it without that context...I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't enjoyed his other films.

A Simple Plan follows the story of three guys as they discover a bag full of cash out in the woods and develop a plan to keep the money. The scenarios that follow are intentionally stilted, and border on comedy as each character makes epically bad decisions with increasingly firm conviction throughout the film. Their progressive manipulation of each other eventually leads to bloodshed (although not as much as in the book upon which this film was based).
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49 days ago

the movie filled with suspense is "dial m for murder".This is hitchcock's one of the best directions and a fantastic story. This story is about a murder which is planned, but turns out to be a failure. The police officer has given his best stuff to find out the real person who had attempted the murder. Finally, the police officer figures out the real person by bringing out many points which makes the viewer very impressed of the work done by Hitchcock.This movie is a must see ,as it contains a packet full of thriller.
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58 days ago

Really enjoyed this movie, beeing a Johnny cash fan helps! Very good actor for the small experience he had when this movie came out. The story is very good and is a fact of life of many people today!
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60 days ago

In an effort to become a modern-day O. Henry, M. Night Shyamalan's continued reliance on the same plot twist gimmick is beyond tired.
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61 days ago

Oliver Stone is a DISGRACE to the word Democracy. He lives in a land where he can live the benefits of "Freedom of Speech", but boasts the Dictator Hugo Chavez as a Hero. If Oliver Stone was a Venezuela living in Venezuela, trying to critique the government or anyone of his officials like he does with the movie "W" and many other movies, he'd be sitting in a Venezuela prison just like many of the local Venezuelan press. Oliver Stone couldn't handle the pressures that the Venezuelan press has to deal with everyday! How many people of the Venezuelan press has had to run into exile in other countries???

Chavez has been shutting down TV Stations over the years, and now has just closed over SIXTY radio stations that he believes speaks against his ideology! Thousands are losing their lifestyle, which is the same one Oliver Stone has made $MILLIONS from. Oliver Stone can do it, because he is an American, or a "Pitty-Yankee" as Chavez calls them, but the Venezuelan DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THE SAME???

He plans to close another FORTY more this year alone. How can a leftist Hollywood director go around calling such a Dictator as a Hero??? While Sean Penn was in Venezuela recently, he was at a Chavez rally telling the Venezuelans that in under no circumstance should any government close down a local media. Well, guess what Mr Sean Penn??? Two days later Hugo Chavez closed down SIXTY radio stations leaving close to 1,000 employees out of work. It was the craziest act since Fidel Castro took over Cuba.

Now, Chavez is requiring the local schools to reform their books and include HIS books. Can you just see Oliver Stone and Sean Penn sitting in Venezuelan classrooms having to be force feed IDEOLOGY of a Dictator. Is the money that important to these Hollywoodists???

Stop putting your arms around the type of influences that you WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO STOMACH on a day to day basis. You can barely tolerate the liberal society of the USA! You wish it was more liberal! Not in Venezuela. You don't think you just do what Chavez tells you to do!!! If Olvier Stone and Sean Penn were Venezuelans, they would be living in exile in Colombia trying to make movies in Bogota. I guarantee it!!!

There is only one word for your types blind HYPOCRITES!!!
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72 days ago

Excellent film. The heavy secrecy imposed on Catholics priests at the time is very well expressed. Hitchcock has done a great job recreating the popular mentality of 1950's Québec City. In my opinion, the most underrated Hitchcock production.
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79 days ago

Most might place this film underneath the high standards of Unforgiven, MDB, and Outlaw Josey Wales- but if you watch it a second time there are spectacular details. The wobbly washer, the tools, and the thing that most critics miss- everyone seems to want something from Walt.

The critics have reviewed this film (and Walt) as a "mean old man" with something to give but they strangely do not mention how everyone in Walt's universe seems to be interested in taking something from him or having him conveniently out of the picture. This was a more complex picture about generation gaps than I thought.

It's time to put Eastwood where he belongs- up there with some of the best American directors. Gran Torino is a damn good film.
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96 days ago

While this is not in the same genius class of Kurosawa's great works like Ran, the Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Yojimbo, it is still excellent.

The story is told from the point of view of two bumbling, comic and slightly crooked peasants, who get attached to a samurai protecting a feisty princess, who is determined to rebuild her fortunes. George Lucas has acknowledged his debt to the film for its influence on the first Star Wars movie, and while it is far from a direct swipe, anyone who has seen the Lucas film will recognize the debt.

Eminently watchable, and great fun, it is far from Kurosawa's most challenging work, but a superb film nonetheless.
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